I'm not interested in Gen Z style debates. Throwing around words like "gaslighting" doesn't mean you have an argument. My point is clear: if China decides on adventurism then it's in for a tough time and it will lose the good will it has spent time building. It is as simple and incontestable as that.
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Exactly who is China trying to impress? Atlanticist European middle class sensibilities who are secretly happy that Asians are killing each other?
If China determines the annexation of the Japanese islands and the destruction of Japanese nationhood to be in the national interest then so be it; the empire of Japan should have followed the same footsteps as the xiongnu and the khitans.
victor gao was being diplomatic as a reflection of current PRC policy to appear to be magnanimous towards India even as it attempts to suck up to the Anglos despite being beaten by them.
Don’t forget Australia as well; the Pine Gap facility will be used to coordinate communications as part of the kill chain. A IRBM there should put paid to that but expect to also have to conquer Australia as well in the third act.
This is like when deepseek first debuted, the western spy agencies mounted 24/7 cyber attacks on the website and tech company.
No you don't understand Japan and East Asian history. You like to school people on African history, but you badly need schooling in East Asian history.
Japanese militarism and fascism is centered around their Imperial Institution. The Japanese believe that their emperors are a descendant of the sun goddess Amaterasu. Unlike other imperial houses in East Asia, it had been the same continuous dynasty since the first Japanese emperor in 660 BC. So the Japanese emperor is literally worshipped as a diving figure. The Japanese emperor is the leader of Shintoism. The Yasukuni shrine is Shinto. Japanese fascism is steeped in Shintoism. They promote the idea that the Japanese people are a divine, superior race. Japanese fascism could metastasize so quickly because it is an ethno-religious-state thing. This is difficult to understand from a Western lens.
Japan had never went through its own "denazification". Yes, there was much repenting by many individual Japanese, but as a nation, Japan had never actually repented. The state chose to deny their WWII crimes, ostensibly to preserve the dignity of the Imperial Institution. Instead they have revised history to portray the old Imperial Japan more as a victim than the villain. They pushed the blame of any "regrettable aggression" to the military, mostly to the IJA and the Kwantung Army. They were apologetic for fighting with the US and the Western allies, but were far less so for fighting the Chinese and Koreans. The most recent narrative of Japanese history school textbooks say that Imperial Japan was actually trying to "civilize" East Asia, but got carried away and fought the Western Allies.
Today, when enough of the old folks who had seen the horrors of WWII have passed, the nationalists, politicians, and revisionist academics are gaining more influence. The Emperor is still there, state Shinto is still there, and they are trying to rekindle nostalgia for Imperial Japan. Unfortunately, this nonsense is gaining traction because the average Japanese today had been badly misinformed about Japan's true WWII history. Plus there is that anti-PRC propaganda machine (by the nationalists and Americans) that gives them the impression that the CCP is the biggest monster of East Asia. They routinely deflect the ugliest Japanese WWII war crimes to the CCP. Hence the Japanese people are being primed for a possible war with China.
The Chinese have been very tolerant with Japan. We were grudgingly prepared to accept that Japan had changed for the better while still being able to retain its Imperial Institution. But that assumption had been erroneous. The American-led West have domesticated fascism after WWII. When it is convenient, they'll unleash it against their rivals. The West have unleashed the Banderites against the Russians in Ukraine. And they are attempting the same thing with Japan.
The Chinese will never tolerate a return of Japanese fascism. If Japan wants to intervene in Taiwan, this will be interpreted as imperial intervention. It shows to the Chinese people that Japan had returned to its old self, trying to reopen the old wounds of the Treaty of Shimonoseki. If Japan is willing to fight China over its reunification with Taiwan, then the Japanese Imperial Institution cannot be trusted to remain. If the Chinese can let go of its millennia-old Imperial Institution, so can the Japanese. Japan had its second chance, but if it chooses to squander it, then things cannot be the same again.
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I don't need to be school on any Asian history, and my point wasn't about Asian history. Any foreign power that comes in and removes a cultural institution will be treated antagonistically. It doesn't matter whether it's Asia, Africa, or planet Krypton.
You need to be schooled, because you are imposing your distorted views on a sensitive topic for East Asia. You like to lecture people here about your "African" sensitivities, so be prepared to take some heat when you touch on East Asian sensitivities. The fact that you replied so casually like this reveals your arrogance and distorted sense of self-importance.
I'm imposing nothing, that's your emotions talking. I get it's a sensitive topic but the outcome will be the same if certain actions are carried out. Bringing up "African sensitivities" has nothing to do with the debate.
My arrogance and distorted sense of self-importance? Don't make me laugh. You're advocating the overthrow of an institution from the safety of your basement. The current Chinese leadership understands the stupidity of doing that, they're too busy running a successful country to throw it all away. Western born Chinese are trying to play empire.
Yes. Many boomers who once had hope for Malaysia are disillusioned. Many blame Anwar and the current government. However this is not entirely correct. Anwar's government is a victim of circumstances, not the cause. The current government is a unity government led by Anwar. Among them is UMNO, the old top dog Malay supremacist party. Why did they decided to join forces? Because Anwar's coalition doesn't have enough seats. Why not enough seats? Because the Malay majority, especially the youths overwhelmingly voted for the other side. And the other side wants to form a Malay-Muslim supremacist government. Its like allying with a demon to protect yourself against an even worse horde of demons.
So Anwar had to make many compromises to UMNO to avoid collapsing his government. Compromises that infringes on the rights of non-Malays. This unfortunately alienates many non-Malays who had voted for the Anwar-led coalition. Anwar is trying his best to lead Malaysia into a better future, while he is still in power. I can see his long term vision, but unfortunately too many voting Malaysians could not. They were led by myopic issues like race equality. There was this recent controversy about some Malaysian Chinese scholars who were not being given quota to enter into Malaysian public universities. If find the controversy hype to be quite idiotic because the quality of Malaysian public universities have drastically declined. In the end, one of those scholars got a scholarship to study in a much better Singaporean university. But this controversy had been used to slam Anwar's government for reneging on its promises to the non-Malays. I can understand their frustration, but they have been unable to see the bigger picture.
All I can say is that the people who have turned on Anwar now are gonna miss the times when he was in power. Because what's likely to come next is a Malay Muslim Hindutva-style government led by the Islamist PAS. When Malaysia crosses that line, I don't think they can turn back. The Malay population is now the dominant majority, and most of them want Malay Muslim supremacy. They don't care about the economy, corruption, or social harmony, they only care that they are on top. This would ensure plenty of long term votes for idiot bigoted politicians as long as they say the right words. Just like what is happening in Hindutva India. This is why electoral democracy actually sucks in practice.
That retired headmistress and myself had once thought that Malaysia could escape he race-religion politics and move forward to a new future. Well, we were wrong.
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Lol! Read your own messages. Its full of arrogance and self-importance. Why are you replying to me if I'm just a Western-born Chinese trying to play empire from my basement?
Again, you're so arrogantly myopic. Nobody here is calling for China to go out of its way to dismantle the Japanese Imperial Institution for no good reason. Yet the roots of Japanese imperialism stems from its Imperial Institution. China can forgive but they can never forget. Therefore, the fate of this Institution is purely Japan's choice. If Japan can coexist with China peacefully, then fine, nothing happens. But if Japan chooses to return to the road of imperial aggression on China, then China must finish the fight. Lest there will be more tragedies over the horizon.
You are shouting from your basement about what China can and cannot do. You didn't even bother to understand the histories and institutions in East Asia. Yet you saw fit to impose your shallow ideals on the Chinese? You claim to feel the pain of the Africans under Western imperialism. Then why could you so casually dismiss the pain that the Chinese and Koreans felt under Japanese imperialism? You dare call us keyboard imperialists? Aren't you a hypocrite?
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Yeah. Imagine if Hitler got away with it and still got to rule Germany after WWII… No wonder there is no remorse for the Japanese about atrocities committed all over Asia.
This is like the equivalent of a Chinese person inserting themselves into an African discussion about decolonisation and starting to espouse revisionist history about how the imperialist European powers that committed unspeakable atrocities on Africans in the age of colonialism weren't actually so bad, how colonialism has 'cultural value' and is a 'cultural institution'.
You may think you have noble intentions but your post reeks of hypocrisy. We don't get to lecture you on intra-African conflicts. You don't get to lecture us about how East Asian nations settle their conflicts.
EDIT: I think this chain of discussion is getting into rage-baiting territory, most rational human beings should be able to see the logic (or lack of, rather) in the statement quoted above. I will not reply further.
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